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2 months after demoing in San Felipe with NORRA, the Stadium Super Trucks will remain an annual undercard at the Grand Prix of Long Beach in 2027. It'll be SST's 14th year on the city's streets.
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#StadiumSuperTrucks #SST #GPLongBeach #AGPLB
Tim Zijlstra joked he'd do the Dakar Rally in 2030. He hopes that joke will become reality, racing in Spain and Morocco with the Rallye du Maroc and Morocco Desert Challenge over 3 years to boost his chances.
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#Dakar2030 #DakarRally #W2RC
Canadian sports car great John Graham was the first driver to race both NASCAR and the Dakar Rally. The latter was a misadventure with a co-driver who utterly hated him, but also led to an F1 contract...
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#DakarRally #NASCAR #F1 #LeMans24
The ASO didn't announce Morocco as the 2027 Dakar Rally host (expect it "in the coming days"), but confirmed it won't be in Saudi Arabia. The hope is to be back in Saudi for the 50th anniversary in 2028.
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#Dakar2028 #Dakar2027 #DakarRally #DakarClassic
Sometimes our editor wants to write about a convention he visited, has a long-form article that isn't a Storytime, or some other dumb idea cooking.
(We now have a Blogs subcategory)
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Gather 'round the campfire, kids, for we've got off-road stories to tell you.
(We now have a "Storytime" category for long-form pieces)
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Despite the new NORRA Legacy World Championship Series, the Legacy Racing Association will still host its usual schedule with standalone races like the Nevada 1000 and Caliente 150.
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#LegacyRacing
Karolis Raišys will look to go back to back at the Dakar Classic in 2027, once again driving his 1978 Land Rover Series III.
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#Dakar2027 #DakarClassic
The Laughlin Desert Classic wasn't the best for Phil Blurton and he dropped it from his final points but he still secured the inaugural American Off-Road Racing Championship Limited overall crown.
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#LaughlinDesertClassic #AmericanOffRoadChampionship #AORC
It took an extra 13 years due to the World Wars and COVID, but from the inaugural race in 1913 to this past week, the International Six Days Enduro finally reached 100 editions.
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#6DAYS #ISDE #FIMISDE
The Internet basically died because of newly-discovered PHP vulnerabilities that had to be patched. Fortunately, 131 Off-Road is already protected via Automattic so we'd survive this hypothetical apocalypse.
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#PHP #PHP2Shell
Dania Akeel will race Toyota's new hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicle Hilux in the 2027 Dakar Rally's Mission 1000 challenge.
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#Dakar2027 #DakarRally #Mission1000 #DakarFuture
The protests in France led to looting and damage to Dafy Moto in Paris and Jacky Onda in Nice, the former the sponsor of Dakar racer Charlie Herbst and the latter the oldest Yamaha dealer in Europe.
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#France #DakarRally #MotoGP #DafyMoto #Yamaha
The FIA plans to make significant updates to the Ultimate and Challenger classes that'll become mandatory by the 2030 World Rally-Raid Championship.
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#W2RC
The FIA Baja Cups will receive a schedule shake-up in 2027 such as the Sardinia Rally Raid's addition in Europe and the Oman International Baja for the Middle East.
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#BajaCup #FIA
From the procession of UMMs to the soldiers watching atop Pandur II APCs, the Baja Portalegre 500 celebrated its 40th birthday in style this weekend.
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#BajaPortalegre #BajaPortalegre500 #CPTT
You know what the Tesla Roadster's recent flight and flip reminds us of? NASCAR Racers. And Adrian Cenni in his Pro 4 at the 2013 Baja 1000.
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#Baja1000 #SCORE #SCOREInternational #Tesla #TORC
Hyperco, who makes springs for those like Dakar Rally-winner Loeb FrayMédia Motorsport and RZR Factory Racing plus short course and NASCAR Cup Series, will conclude activities at the end of 2026.
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#Hyperco #DakarRally #SCOREInternational #SCORE #NASCAR
Amid questions of how much Czech president Petr Pavel paid to flew to and from the Rallye du Maroc, Fesh Fesh confirmed their chartered team plane was used.
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#RdM2026 #RallyeduMaroc #RallyeOLAEnergyduMaroc #OLAnrj_RdM #W2RC
November's Baja 1000 will stretch 964.66 miles, starting and finishing in Los Cabos for the first time.
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#Baja1000 #SCOREInternational #SCORE